Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BY HENSTRIDGE CROSS AT THE YEAR'S END, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why go the east road now? Last Line: "we are for new feet now." Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails | ||||||||
WHY go the east road now?. . . That way a youth went on a morrow After mirth, and he brought back sorrow Painted upon his brow: Why go the east road now? Why go the north road now? Torn, leaf-strewn, as if scoured by foemen, Once edging fiefs of my forefolk yeomen, Fallows fat to the plough: Why go the north road now? Why go the west road now? Thence to us came she, bosom-burning, Welcome with joyousness returning. . . . She sleeps under the bough: Why go the west road now? Why go the south road now? That way marched they some are forgetting, Stark to the moon left, past regretting Loves who have falsed their vow. . . . Why go the south road now? Why go any road now? White stands the handpost for brisk onbearers, "Halt!" is the word for wan-cheeked farers Musing on Whither, and How. . . . Why go any road now? "Yea: we want new feet now" Answer the stones. "Want chit-chat, laughter: Plenty of such to go hereafter By our tracks, we trow! We are for new feet now." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HE FINDS THE MANSION by JAMES MCMICHAEL BY DIFFERENT PATHS by MARVIN BELL DRIVING HOME by MADELINE DEFREES ART IS PARALLEL TO NATURE by CLARENCE MAJOR HIGHWAY 2, ILLINOIS by LISEL MUELLER AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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